It's a .....

GIRL !!

1 week left

So, it has been a month since I got to Japan.
Jason went home early yesterday.

Ren and I have 1 week left here.

The main reason we had this vacation is attending my sister's wedding.
She was very pretty, and he looked so happy.






Of course other than the wedding, we did many things.

the weekend Jason came here, Jason and I went to little trip to Osaka and Hyogo.

We stayed at Onsen hotel.
here is our free dinner, yey!

Little garden at hotel

And we went to Himeji castle.

From the top of castle, I was looking down outside, thinking what the people who actually lived here was looking from this window.

Here is the view from top today.

Hills, hills, hills.....walking, walking, walking...

Jason looking at the front gate.

Mino water fall.

Because it rained a lot the day before, the water fall was so beautiful, and feels so good

just to sit there and listen to water falling.

We went to TALL building, had 40 floors.

From the top, you can see all Osaka (almost).

We ate at Osho where Jason's favorite restaurant.

Fall is beautiful in Japan, its best time to go hiking and look at red, yellow mountains.

This resort will be full of ski and snowboard in winter.

the view from mountain is beautiful.

You can see Ocean back there.

Ren had fun going up and down everywhere.

The wind was little cold, but it was perfect day!

We took little walk to my elementary school.

He is so monkey....

He just wants to do what other kids are doing.

I don't remember how many times he missed bars, and almost fall,

but still he had much fun.

Ren became good friend with Tomo (my sister)

We had littel halloween party at church.

Because I didn't have anything ready for his costume, I made this quickly.

Can you tell what he is??

yeah, its Elmo~!!!

Of course we did ALOT of shopping.

We still have a week!!

We have lots of plans for this week, lots of fun!

By the way, I have gained about 10 lbs since I got here....hahaha

Maternity clothing started looking fitting on me, now.

Baby is growing!!

my bumble bee

so, I went to Hospital for Ultrasound to get exact due date.

Baby was a little smaller than actually 8weeks, so they told me my due date will be

April 4th, 2009


Uhhh~ 2 days away from our wedding anniversary.....


However the baby is about 7 weeks and 5 days today, I was able to see and hear heart beat.

Oh my goodness, I almost started crying.

I am so happy that we are having a baby and there is a life in my berry.

Baby is about 1.36cm, not even a inch long yet, yet his/her heart is moving and
I could feel the baby trying to grow up.

Here is my little bumble bee looking baby

Eventfull Summer 2008

We left our house 4:30 am to go to airport and get on the plane at 6am.
Here starts our 1 week vacation trip to North Carolina!!

Ren started eating my snack for the week (sapporo potato, my favorite!)
so it was gone by the time we got to NC



It's so BEAu~tiful
doesn't it remind you Nintendo game Mario brothers?
Jump on clouds to go to the other side??



Hotel was good!
Total devided by 6 adult costs only $28 something.


It was good that they had a fridge.
Yes, there is a kitchen, but there is nothing other than few plates and cups and silverware.
Oh, yeah, there were towels, too haha
but no pans or any cooking tools.....wierd


and next day, we headed to beach house.

We stopped at visitors center looking place.
Ren is being COOL, yeah!


doesn't this look so Japanese??
Obviously, he has thick Japanese blood in, haha


We had little walk on trail.



After 3 hours drive, finally, we got there.

BEAUTIFUL~~!!!


But it started raining, and by the time we got back to the house
which is like 2 min walk, we got soaked wet....


and we went to eat dinner.

All you can eat crab!!!
that's pretty much all and only thing I ate.

YUMMMMMMMMY!!!!



Jimmy and his wife could join for a day.




so, Ren LOVED ocean.
in Utah, first thing he says when he wakes up is "Mickey....?"
means "he wants to watch mickey mouse clubhouse.

for this 1 week, first thing he said was " water~!!!!!"
Morning, Lunch, Afternoon, Night, it doesn't matter when

he was "WATER~~!!!!!" screamer.

You can imagine how much fun he had by looking at this picture
He was not scared WHAT SO EVER!!!!


He also like being stuck in sand


We went to Aquarium, to look at fish, reptiles, etc
But he was little sleepy, and scared of most of stuff.....


Ren's face.......


We had all fun with these people + uncle Jim who took this picture.
Ren loved playing with Timmy.


It's one of our best picture, except Ren is little crying
because I wanted to take our picture on the stairs,
and everyone went to beach to take picture,
so he thought they all left him.....


We had ok deal on rental car.



I felt forever to get to salt lake airport....
We left beach house 9:30 am and Brett arrived salt lake around 8
and we arrived around 10:30.



We went to Carl's Jr. for dinner and headed home.
and straight went to bed........


It was so much fun for us, and it was our first vacation as a family of 4 (kind of)

Yes, a week later, I found out I am pregnant!!!
Finally, our baby #2 is on the way!!


Well, summer is not over yet.
We are still having fun everyday at home with Jason being home at night.

Summer, We need BBQ!!

Since Jason started working day shift, our life has changed ALOT in good way!
We actually can do stuff together.

We sometimes can go shopping,
We can watch TV and movies together,

More than that, I am so happy that Ren can spend time with his papa.
They take bath together, they were playing soccer yesterday.

We went to our friend's apart to go to hot tubb.
OH~~~ it was GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!

Here is the picture of Ren and Jason watching a movie on portable DVD player, eating De's chili soup with chips.
mmm, yum!



I took some of Ren's summer pictures after Sunday in front of our house.



But he starting playing with the toy that was left on our lawn.



He never stop moving!!!




On Fourth of July, Jason needed to work, and I was going to work (ended with not working)
so, Ren was down at grandparents' house from 2nd.

I cleaned house, went shopping, etc.

And my friend had a baby girl!!!
I haven't seen her yet, maybe going to see her on next Saturday.

Ren LOOOOVED fire works!!
He had fun with sparkles, and he did the big ones, too



On Sunday, one of our friend was ordained to Elder, so we had BBQ after church.

well,, we do BBQ almost every week during summer anyway, haha
since we did not have any beef, we BBQed shrimp and some hamburgers.



and we went down to park.
Jason, Matt, and Tim played soccer, Ren was rolling everywhere....



"THEY" had fun in water, haha



I say, Ren had the most fun (^^)





He never stopped going in there.
Look at his clothe.....all WET

Ren "mama! wet!"
mama "Oh Uh...."
Ren Smile,,,,and


Diving into water anyway, hahaha~~


Fortunately we had change for Ren.
He changed and headed to playground.



you can imagine that he screamed crying when we left there......

We watched the new movie "Wall. E"

however, all of us except Jason fell sleep.
Well, that means we have to watch it again.

It was LONG and FUN sunday!!